Since typography here is, at present, unreadable, and since the Web is mostly typography, and since discussion fora are almost completely typography, type needs more than amateur-level attention. (Anyone who says “I can read it” or “I have no troubel reading Urban Toronto,” even if they run the...

Of course this should go in the TTC Cartography, Signage, and Wayfinding thread, but that’s been dormant for years. En tout cas, I’m giving a presentation to some computer nerds this Wednesday (27 July 2016) about TTC type ’n’ tile. Then we’re having a miniature Type & Tile Tour at Dundas...

He did, and they are.

Seriously? Such endemic acceptance of low standards and actual system-wide mistakes? Seriously?

No, in fact this typeface (which has more than one weight, but try telling TTC Design™ that) should and must be confined to sidewalls in subway stations, though arguably the ferry-docks terminal one stop outside Union could also use it. Maybe – maybe – typesetting names of stations in that face...

Yes, and they’re equally useless, given equivalent illumination (as is the case here), to the 4% to 8% of males, and some females, with colour deficiency. Engineers (well more than 8% of whom are male) are and remain too ignorant to understand the implications of colour choice.

No, I would be on the Eight-Three omnibus, which in all likelihood will not have extra service, because some old man at the TTC long ago decided that this was a Saturday and Saturdays have a certain level of service and why are we having this conversation? (That same thinking led to the fatality...

That one is its own flavour of failure, with its endless length, underscores, and mixed case. If you can’t dictate your URL over the phone, it sucks. But Toronto has never really done “Web design.” En tout cas, who’s going to Leslie Barns?

Who is going to the tour of the Leslie Barns during Doors Open ’016? (I’m not linking to the official page because its URL is the kind of insane 500-character nonsense that only incompetent developers would use. It won’t last.)

Yes, your low standards should obviously prevail. These pieces of shit also cannot pronounce relatively unimportant proper names like Dundas. The external route announcements were not actually tested and have not been debugged. Their implementation is a complete boondoggle for reasons I won’t...

One can say what one said to ACAT in a letter complaining about this completely undesigned boondoggle of a system: There is no such thing as a “one hundred ninety-nine” bus anywhere in the TTC. As ever, when faced with the task of using human language to communicate with human beings, the...

“Skirting,” in the delightful term of art.

I have a dim racial memory that Steve Munro stated that LFLRVs have exactly the same ground clearance as {A|C}LRVs, but cannot find any such reference now.

I scanned the “design†of all my TTC Metropasses from 2007 through 2014, including some weeklies and the obverses of some years’ passes when the design or wording obviously changed. For most of that time, the design was attributed to Kal Bedder, who ostensibly doesn’t work at the TTC anymore.

Bus platforms are largely accessible Surely you will have noticed that a large number of stations have had their platforms retrofitted with automatic doors and wheelchair gates so that you can ride the bus (all of which are accessible) to the station and leave that station via an accessible...

A complete myth.

It’s using the Alex voice from Mac OS X VoiceOver, which is rather unexpected, given that hitherto the sole Macintosh in the organization was Giambrone’s. You can’t possible expect TTC to get anything right that involves the written word, in this case scripts for text-to-speech.

The straplines have not been removed. In fact, save for the pictograph segments, they appear to have been cleaned along with the adjoining walls.

…which are, in fact, not like the Sheppard straplines at all and manage the unlikely accomplishment of mangling Arial. (Check the g in George on one of them.)

Readers of this thread, particularly the nastier and more ignorant, might want to read about the actual project.